{"id":14,"date":"2023-01-12T18:35:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T18:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2023-01-14T13:44:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T13:44:04","slug":"apollo-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/index.php\/the-apollo-missions\/apollo-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apollo 1 Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Apollo 1, also known as AS-204, was the first manned mission of the United States Apollo program. It was intended to be the first manned flight of the Apollo spacecraft, which was designed to land astronauts on the Moon. The mission was scheduled to launch on February 21, 1967, but a fire broke out in the spacecraft during a pre-launch test on January 27, killing all three astronauts on board: <a href=\"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/index.php\/the-apollo-astronauts\/gus-grissom\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"113\">Gus Grissom<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/index.php\/the-apollo-astronauts\/edward-white\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"117\">Edward White<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/index.php\/the-apollo-astronauts\/roger-chaffee\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"122\">Roger Chaffee<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"795\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"74\" src=\"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/800px-Apollo_1s_Command_Module_-_GPN-2003-00057-795x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/800px-Apollo_1s_Command_Module_-_GPN-2003-00057-795x1024.jpg 795w, https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/800px-Apollo_1s_Command_Module_-_GPN-2003-00057-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/800px-Apollo_1s_Command_Module_-_GPN-2003-00057-768x990.jpg 768w, https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/800px-Apollo_1s_Command_Module_-_GPN-2003-00057.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"639\" height=\"432\" data-id=\"75\" src=\"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/LC34plaque2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/LC34plaque2.jpg 639w, https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/LC34plaque2-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire was caused by a spark from an electrical wire that ignited a fire in the pure oxygen-rich environment inside the spacecraft. The astronauts were unable to escape due to the lack of a hatch that could be opened from the inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1280px-Apollo_1_Prime_Crew_-_GPN-2000-001159-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1280px-Apollo_1_Prime_Crew_-_GPN-2000-001159-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1280px-Apollo_1_Prime_Crew_-_GPN-2000-001159-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1280px-Apollo_1_Prime_Crew_-_GPN-2000-001159-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1280px-Apollo_1_Prime_Crew_-_GPN-2000-001159.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The disaster led to significant changes in the design and testing of the Apollo spacecraft, and the next manned mission, <a href=\"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/index.php\/the-apollo-missions\/apollo-7-mission\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"82\">Apollo 7<\/a>, did not launch until October 1968.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apollo 1, also known as AS-204, was the first manned mission of the United States Apollo program. It was intended to be the first manned flight of the Apollo spacecraft, which was designed to land astronauts on the Moon. The mission was scheduled to launch on February 21, 1967, but a fire broke out in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72,"parent":12,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/125"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apollospaceprogram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}